“And while this really doesn’t have any practical applications, it was interesting to do,” he stated.

With humidity making the paper “fairly limp with moisture,” Heisz said it was “amazing” that his experiment even worked.

He later tried to test his makeshift paper blade on a piece of aluminum, but it just “polished the edge before wearing out,” he wrote. “The abrasiveness of the paper works well on wood, but is no match for anything harder.”